Summary
Contents
The SAGE Key Concepts series provide students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension. Key Concepts in Journalism offers a systematic and accessible introduction to the terms, processes, and effects of journalism;a combination of practical considerations with theoretical issues; and further reading suggestions. The authors bring an enormous range of experience in newspaper and broadcast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise. This book will be essential reading for students in journalism, and an invaluable reference tool for their professional careers.
Self-Regulation
Self-Regulation
The media, and journalists collectively or individually, self-regulate their work when they acknowledge ethics should govern it, and therefore follow ethical rules and procedures.
In the UK, the doctrine of press freedom has made governments reluctant to impose any statutory regulation of ethics – e.g. financial penalty for unethical conduct, or punitive restraint on publication – on the newspaper and magazine sectors. These fund their own organization to adjudicate on complaints about their journalism. From 1953 it was the Press Council. Since 1991 it has been the Press Complaints Commission. This system, despite much controversy, has endured, modified itself and is now securely established.
Among the advantages of such a self-regulatory system, in addition to the inherent protection from state interference in the press, are that it ...